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Capt. Boggs' Trick.

Capt. Boggs, Virginian, who held
captains license on the Mississippi river
before he was of age, and who for four.
teen years had the contract to supply the
military posts in Utah, Colorado, New
Mexico and Arizona with fuel, tells the
following story
ri was down in the Ute reservation in
Colorado, and had strolled down to the
shores of small lake, while my mules
and teamsters were eating dinner, when
came across a party of about q dozen
Indians. They were armed with rifles,
and were shooting at snag which stuck
out of the water about 200 yards distant
The stake for which they were shooting
were composed of 25c. from each man.
I stood watching them for some time, and
then decided to enter the competition.
Each man had three shots, and the man
who hit the snag the most times won the
pot. The misses u ere told by the splash
in the water, the hits by the absence of
the splash.
"After some parley with the redskins
I got them to allow me to enter the
match, thougl they compelled me to de-
posit half a dollar, while they put in but
quarter. I had Henry repeater with
me that, fortunately for my purpose, was
then unloaded. was accounted one Of
the best shots in that country, but knew
that the Indians were not by any means
slow. Iislipped three cartridges into my
rifle, and as [ did so broke the ball of,
thus leaving q blank cartridge. Of
course no splash followed any ofmy shots,
and the Indians thought I had hit the
snag every time. I won that pot, but the
next time L Intentionally lost by not
breaking the balls off and by taking in.
different aim.
"I then broke all the balls off until I
had won $18. Then the Indians, who
began to look at me with suspicion or
awe, refused to shoot any more. invited
them up to the store, and spent the
money on knick.knacks, which divided
among them. 1 then took them back to
the lake and showed them the trick.
They were very much surprised, but took
it in good part.
"On returning that way few days
after I found the same Indians on the
lake shore, shooting big match with a
neighboring tribe, whom they were rap.
idly cleaning out of everything. / learn.
ed that they had skinned every Indian
in the country that they could get to
shoot against them. said nothing, but
mused on the readiness of the savage to
adopt the white mans trick" ."-Boston
Traveller.
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Calm and Candid.

When Gen. Sherman entered Colds
boro, N. c., after his march to the sea,
on his way to join Grant before Rich
mond, there dwelt in that town certain
Col. K. who was one of the most rabid
Secessionists that could be found. His
house was situated in the North end of
the city and at the north end of street,
80 that any one coming into town would
see his residence as soon as he would
enter the south end of this same street.
When Gen. Sherman and staff came into
the town theh came up his street and stop
ped lust in front of Col. KS residence; the
Colonel, who was out on his porch,
greeted them, and an officer, saluting
him, asked what his sentiments were In
regard to the war.
IT am a strong Union man." answered
the Colonel, with dry smile.
"Ah, indeed" said the officer, rather
sarcastically; "and how long have you
been Union mani"
sI have been Union man." said the
Colonel, slowly, as if considering his
words, 'tever since saw you and your
staff come into the end of that street,
about fifteen minutes ago."
The candor in the .ColonePs reply
pleased Gen. Sherman, and he ordered q
guard placed around Col. KS property
and during the entire stay of the army
in Goldsboro, not thing was molested
in or around his premises, although
many private as we'll as public buildings
were burned and pillaged.
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"Ain' no Time fo' Chillun.O

If the simplicity of prayer be its chief
merit, then colored preacher who offer.
ed up a supplication at the Citadel Green
on the night of the great earthquake is
far ahead of many Of the courtly and
polished theologians of the day. The
following prayer, which is by many
degrees more eloquent than the prayer OF
Ajax for light, made before terrified
crowd of colored and white people on the
Green on the night stated, and, consider
ing the circumstances and the peculiar
notions of the colored people on snch
matters, the preacher will be acquitted of
anything like charge of irreverence.
He said, raising his hands towards the
s.Do, Lawd, come down an 60 'mong
yer people, for dey is terrify-dey am
skerd like; dey dunno which way to tun
over, cause dey tink you am bex wild um.
Come down, please, So, an walk roun'
wid UNI, tex um by de han an tell um
you ain bex; an if yo' can't come, SEN
you Son. But Lawd, dis no time to chI'
lun. So come, yoself, if you can, please,
sal"
The above is a reproduction of the
prayer just as it was delivered, without
an attempt at application or interpola.
ton. 1t is easy to see how the colored
divine, deriving his knowledge of the
character and power of the Saviour from
pictures in which he is represented as an
infant, should have said exactly what he
did say. The preachers idea was that
the case required the immediate attention
of what he conceived to be the only and
supreme authority.-Uarleston Sunday
NeWs.
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Family Quarrels.

Ihave no respect for the woman who
runs around among her neighbors and
friends talking about her husbands
shortcomings, and the various points of
difference between him and herself.
And I have great contempt for the man
who is given; to airing his matrimonial
grievances abroad. No third party can
adjust the differences that may exist be-
tween man and his wife. If he and
she cannot settle their own affairs they
must 90 unsettled. There is nothing
more destructive to the peace and happi-
ness of home than the daily little
chickering's and bits of fault-Gndipg in
which so many husbands and wives iu-
dulge.
Of course, there are the "blue Mon
day" sort of days, when nothing goes
right, and spirit of evil seems to have
taken possession of the entire household.
Such days come to the best regulated
families. It's an out-cropping Of our in
nate tendency to 60 wrong at times.
Sometimes I am glad that such days
come to our house, for we are all so glad
and happy after we have "kissed and
made up" all around.
Inever say anything when I hear hus-
bands and wives declare that in all the
ten, fifteen or twenty years of their
married lives they have never had
-"single cross word" 1 keep mum be-
cause hate to tell them I don't believe
what they say, and 1 just don't believe
it. We are not angels, and only angels
could live that way. But whatever our
differences, do let us keep them to our
selves. Disaster follows in the wake of a
man or woman who tells to the world his
or her quarrels with John or Mary.
Mum is the word.-Zenas Dane in Good
Housekeeping.
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The Barber's Temperance Lecture.

There are many temperance lectures
which are not delivered in public places :.
and good many plain, sensible people
say things on the subject which are quite
as we'll worth remembering as the most
eloquent addresses of eminent temper
ance orators. When men will look facts
in the face they will find abundant rea-
sons for letting strong drink alone.
Two colored BARRIERS we're together in
shop. One was young man, the other
vas old. The young man took off his
apron and started out of the door.
"Yo's gwine to get drink, Jim ?"
asked the elder.
"Dat's what Is gwine to do"
$50 and git yo' drink. Iyoost ter do
de same ting when wuz young. When
I wuz fust married dab wuz gin mill
next to de shop whar 1 wicked, and l
spent in it fifty and sebenty cents a day
ohten de dollah an half I earned.
Wal, one mawnin I went into de butchah
shop, and who shood cum in but de man
wat kep' de likker shop.
"Gib me ten pounds potter house
steak" he said.
"He got it and went out. I sneaked
up to de butchah and looked to see what
money had left"
"What do you waut?" said de butchah.
"Gib me ten cents wuft O. libber," wuz
my remark.
"It wuz all I could pay fur. Now you
go and git yo' drink. You'll eat libber,
but de man wat sells yo' de stuff will hab
his potter. house steak. De man behin'
de bar eats po'ter-house steak-de man
in front eats libber. amt touched de
stuff fo' 80 years, and now I am eatin'
potter. house steak myself"
If man wishes to make the rumseller
rich and himself poor; to feed the rum
seller luxurious while he starves his own
children if he desires to dress the rum
sellers wife in velvets and his own wife
in rags, and rob his own wretched, bare
footed children that he may adorn and
beautify the family of the rumseller-
there is only one thing necessary, and
that is, let him drink strong drink. He
will find that these greedy rumselling
cormorants will take everything he earns,
and leave wretched outcast, while they
revel in luxury, and waste the substance
that belongs to the poor and suffering.
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A Cent Piece with History.

"There is counterfeit lO.cent piece
with history" said Jackson.street
man yesterday as he fondled a greasy
looking coin dangling from his watch
chain. "When the Federal troops were
before Fredericksburg, New York vol.
unteer got out of his trench one morning,
and, after attracting the attention of
Johnny who could be seen inside the for.
ti6cations, raised flask of whiskey TO
his lips, which we're puckered for long
pull.
"The volunteer had taken perhaps
three swallows of the liquor when esaw
a puff of smoke and flash from the for.
tifcations, followed a second later by
the collapse of the whiskey flask and the
fall of the volunteer. The bottle which
had been struck by minnie ball, was
shivered, and the man who had held it
lay bleeding at our feet. His upper jaw
had been shattered by the bullet, which
had also taken away seven of his teeth
and buried itself high up in his right
cheek. 1t was one of the prettiest shots
I saw during the whole war, and the vol
uuteer, although seriously wounded,
seemed to think it about the finest piece
of work it had ever been his pleasure to
witness.
"The bullet was cut out by the sur.
geon, and as soon as the patient recover
ed from the shock which he experienced
We melted the piece of lead and cast four
of these dimes. The volunteer kept one;
another went to his brother, the surgeon
the third and was so fortunate as to be-
come the possessor of the other. So you
see this little piece of rebel lead broke
a whiskey bottle and human jaw,
knocked out seven teeth and travelled
over 600 yards to bathe itself in liquor
and gore. Six months after this incident
we learned that the bullet WAS fired by
cross eyed man in South Carolina Reg
iment."- Chicago Herald
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Political.

"Tommy," said the politician sternly
to his 1O-year.old son, 81 bought a case
of beer the day before yesterday"
"Did you, pa?" queried the boy inno'
Gently. Chow nice
"Tommy," still more sternly, "don't
you try to deceive your father. Over
half of that case is gone already. What
did you do with II"
"Well pa" whimpered the boy apollo
getically, "you see we organized foot.
Ball club yesterday"
"And did that call for the use of
beer?"
"Um-ah-politics eh? Well, IT. that
makes q difference. Did you get 1t Z?
eyes. 1 was elected captain"
"You were, eh? Well, see here, Tom
nv. you just take the rest Of that case
and see if you can't be president OF the
club. You have discovered the royal
road to political advancement" ."--ff'm
the Rambler.
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A Legend Of the Flight Into Egypt.

'tArise, and take the child and his
mother into Egypt" and they fled
through the solemn darkness of the
night.
The next day they came upon man
sowing corn. Some mysterious influence
attracted him to the travellers. From the
countenance of the mother. or from the
earnest eyes of the child she bore in her
arms, softening CLEAN of grace de-
scended into his heart. he was very
kind to them, and permitted them to
cross his field, and the young mother,
folding her babe yet more closely to her
heart, leaned forward, explaining to him
that they were pursued by enemies.
"And if they come this way" said the
sweet, love voice, sand ask if you have
seen us"-
III shall say you did not pass this way" !"
was the eager interruption.
"Nay," said the blessed mother, "you
must speak only the truth. Say: They
passed me while I was sowing this
corn."
And the travellers pursued their jour-
ney. The next morning the sower was
amazed to find that his corn had sprung
up and ripened in the night. While he
was gazing at it in astonishment, Herod's
officers rode up and questioned him.
eyes, saw the people of whom you
speak," said he. "They passed while I
was sowing this corn"
Then the officers moved on, feeling
sure that the persons seen by the sower
were not the Holy family, for such fine
ripe corn must have been sown months
before. .-Ruth OCoanor.
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The following are given as the
height and location of some of the tall
buildings used for dwelling purposes in
New York City: Osborne Flats, Fifty
seventh street and Seventh avenue, III
feet in height; Dakota Flats, Eighth
avenue and Seventy second street, 155
feet; Munro Flats, Fifty-ninth street,
east of Sixth avanue, 1856 feet; Navarro
Flats, Seventh avenue and Ffty.ninth
street, l42A feet. The measurement is
from the curb level to roof,
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Bucklen's ArDaca SalYe.

The Best salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever
Sores, letter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains,
Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and posi-
lively cures Piles, or no pay required.
1t is guaranteed to give perfect satisfac-
tion, or money refunded. Price 25 cents
Der box. For sale by Hill Bros, Ander.
son, S. @.
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1T. McGunaey g. Co., Fonto Flora, n. c.,
says: One of our customers, Mr.. Wesley
Conley, has suffered with vertigo for two
years. After trying the best physicians
without obtaining any relief, he says one
box of your Pills has almost entirely cured
him. Our friend, Mr.. Adolphus Browning,
has suffered for years with the dreadful dis.
ease dyspepsia, and after using one box OF
your Pills says he cannot be without them
and orders another box. For sale by all
dealers in medicine. Sample package free
at HILL BROS. Drug Store.
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- This notice is found posted up in a
negro blacksmith's shop: "Notis.-De-
copartnership Heretofore resisting be-
twixt me and Nose Skinner is hereby
resolved. Dem what owe dc firm Will
settle wild me, and dem what de firm owe
will settle Hid Mosc.'
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Let not the grass grow in the path OF

Let not the grass grow in the path of
friendship.
The hot biscuit is the grub that
makes the butter fly.
Honest is not only the best policy,
but it is the politics.
A Pretty Michigan girl has been
put in Jail for horse stealing. The law
appears to be mean, sour old thing out
west
-Fogg says that when he asked the
future Mrs. F. for her hand he had no
idea it was going to cost him so much to
keep it in gloves.
"A writer in the Milling World gives
some statistics with regard to the great
wall of China. He states that the great
pyramid has S5,000,000 cubic feet. An
engineer some years ago gave it as his
opinion that the cost of this wall would
more than equal that of all the 100000
miles of railroad in the United States.
The material it contains would build a
wall six feet high and two feet thick
around the globe. Yet the great wall
was built in only twenty years, without a
trace of debt or bond. 1t is the greatest
Individual labor the world has ever
known.
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Tom Acrefoot is the appropriate
name of man in Key west whose feet
are 16 inches long and 81 inches wide.
His mother was from Chicago,
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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
COUNTY OF ANDERSON

COURT OF CUMMUN FLENs.
William Burriss, Plaintiff, against D. II. Russell,
]. H. Reed, J. Pink Reed, and ]. Pink Reed +.
L. Moorhcnd and H. o. Herrick, late merchants
and partners, doing business under the firm
name of Reed, Moorhead & Co., Defendants
Summons for Reliet-Complaim Serred.
To the Defendants, D. H. Russell, J. Il. Reed, J.
Pink Reed, r. L. Moorhend and II. 0. Herrick
L swer the complaint in this action, Of which a
COPY is herewith served upon you, and to serve O
copy Of your answer to the said complaint on the
subscribers at their Office, Anderson c. H., s. C..
within twenty days after the service hereof, ex;
elusive of the day of such service and If you fall
to answer the complaint within the time afore-
said the plaintiff In this action will apply to the
Court for the relief demanded in the complaint.
Dated November 23rd, A. D. 1886.
MURRAY, BREAZEALE MURRAY,
Plaintiffs Attorneys.
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THE STATE. OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
COUNTY OF ANDERSON.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS,

P. K. McCully, James NJ Cathcart and F. E. Wat
kins, merchants and partners, doing business
& Co., Plaintiffs, against J. P. Mitchell, Defend.
ant.-Summons for Reliet-C6mplaim Ssrred.
To the Defendant, J. P. Mitchell:
VOU are hereby summoned and required to an
L swer the coz plant in this action. of which Q
copy is herewith served upon you, and to serve
copy of your answer to the said complaint on the
subscribers at their Office, Anderson G, H., S. C..
within twenty days after the service hereof, e1;
elusive Of the day of such service; and If you fall
to answer the complaint within the time aforesaid
the plaintiffs in this action will apply to the Court
for the relief demanded in the complaint.
Dated November 23rd, A. D. 1886.
MURRAY, BREAZEALE 4 MURRAY,
Plaintiffs Attorneys.
rc..x1 1r 7, T,,Y,pyr n n
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SUFFERING WOMEN !
Read What the Great Methodist Divine
and Eminent Physician Says of
.EeBradlGld's male Regulator.

ATLANTA, Ga, Feb. 20, 1884.
DR.. ]. BRADFIELD: Dear Sir-Some fifteen
years ago examined the recipe of Female Regu-
to its components, and then (as we'll as now pro.
nounce it to be the most scientific and skillful
combination of the really reliable remedial vege-
table agents known to science, to act directly on
parts sympathizing directly with these; and,
therefore, providing specific remedy for all dis
eases of the womb and Of the adjacent organs and
parts. -...., Yours truly
JESSE BORING, NJ. D., D. D.
BRADFlELp's FEMALE REGULATOR is only In
tended for diseases peculiar to women, and for
these Is q SPECIFIC.
Sold by all druggist Send for our treatise on
the Health and Happiness Of Woman, mailed free,
which give NIL particulars.
TIE BRADFIELD REGULATOR Co.,
Box %, Atlanta, Ga.
For sale by wILHITE & WILHiTE, Anderson,
6 C. l5)
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rSEAL] NJ. P. Tribble, C. C.

To the Defendant, J. Il. Reed:
Take notice that the complaint In this action
together with the summons, of which the forego.
ing is copy was filed in the Office of the Clerk Of
the Court Of Common Pleas at Anderson c. H., in
the County of Anderson, in the State Of South
Carolina, on the 23rd day of November, A. D: 1856
MURRAY, BREAZEALE & MURRAY,
Plaintiffs Attorneys, Anderson, sc.
r.,o 1000
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Take notice tha. the complaint in this action,
together with the summons, of which the forego-
ing is a copy was filed in the office of the
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas at Anderson
6. H. in tho County of Anderson, in the State of
South Carolina, On the 23rd day of November,
A. D. 1886.
MURRAY, BREAZEALE d MURBA1,
Plantifs' Attorneys.
Dec 2, 1886 81
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To James z. Griffin, absent Defendant:
You will take notice that the complaint IN this
action, together with the summons, of which the
foregoing is a copy, was filed in the Office Of the
Clerk of the Court Of Common Pleas for Anderson
County, at Anderson C. H., S. c., on the 9th day
of October, 1886. BROWN & TRIBBLE,
Plaintiffs Attorneys.
Dec 16. 1856 g
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NOTICE.
New Harness Shop

TINE undersigned having bought out
: Il the Harncss Business heretofore car
ried on by Mr.. ]. P. Catlett, are now pre-
pared to1 Harm ass you up, or rather your
Horses and Mules, with First Class
Homemade Harness at astonish-
ingly low prices. We have on hand nice
lot of Brides, lIalters, Collars, Lines, &C.,
at very low figures. Also, nice line OF
Buggy and Wagon Whips from ten cents
up. Special attention given to Repair
ing of all kinds in our line. Call and see
us before making your trade. Shop up
stairs, over McGully, Cathcart & Co.'s Store.
JESSE M. SMITH,
THOS. H. MCKINNEY.
Feb II. 1885 81 1y